1988 in country music
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See also: 1987 in country music, 1988 in music, other events of 1988, 1989 in country music, 1980s in music and the List of years in Country Music
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Events
Top Hits of the Year
No. 1 Hits
(As certified by Billboard magazine)
- January 9 - "I Can't Get Close Enough" - Exile
- January 16 - "One Friend" - Dan Seals
- January 23 - "Where Do the Nights Go" - Ronnie Milsap
- January 30 - "Goin' Gone" - Kathy Mattea
- February 6 - "Wheels" - Restless Heart
- February 13 - "Tennessee Flat Top Box" - Rosanne Cash
- February 20 - "Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star" - Merle Haggard
- February 27 - "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" - Tanya Tucker, Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet
- March 5 - "Face to Face" - Alabama and K.T. Oslin
- March 12 - "Too Gone Too Long" - Randy Travis
- March 19 - "Life Turned Her That Way" - Ricky Van Shelton
- March 26 - "Turn it Loose" - The Judds
- April 2 - "Love Will Find its Way to You" - Reba McEntire
- April 9 - "Famous Last Words of a Fool" - George Strait
- April 16 - "I Wanna Dance With You" - Eddie Rabbitt
- April 23 - "I'll Always Come Back" - K.T. Oslin
- April 30 - "It's Such a Small World" - Rodney Crowell and Rosanne Cash
- May 7 - "Cry, Cry, Cry" - Highway 101
- May 14 - "I'm Gonna Get You" - Eddy Raven
- May 21 - "Eightteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" - Kathy Mattea
- June 4 - "What She Is (Is a Woman in Love)" - Earl Thomas Conley
- June 11 - "I Told You So" - Randy Travis
- June 25 - "He's Back and I'm Blue" - Desert Rose Band
- July 2 - "If It Don't Come Easy" - Tanya Tucker
- July 9 - "Fallin' Again" - Alabama
- July 16 - "If You Ever Change Your Mind" - Rosanne Cash
- July 23 - "Set 'Em Up Joe" - Vern Gosdin
- July 30 - "Don't We All Have the Right" - Ricky Van Shelton
- August 6 - "Baby Blue" - George Strait
- August 13 - "Don't Close Your Eyes" - Keith Whitley
- August 20 - "The Bluest Eyes in Texas" - Restless Heart
- August 27 - "The Wanderer" - Eddie Rabbitt
- September 3 - "I Couldn't Leave You if I Tried" - Rodney Crowell
- September 10 - "(Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes" - Highway 101
- September 17 - "Joe Knows How to Live" - Eddy Raven
- September 24 - "Addicted" - Dan Seals
- October 1 - "We Believe in Happy Endings" - Earl Thomas Conley and Emmylou Harris
- October 8 - "Honky Tonk Moon" - Randy Travis
- October 15 - "Streets of Bakersfield" - Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens
- October 22 - "Strong Enough to Bend" - Tanya Tucker
- October 29 - "Gonna Take a Lot of River (Mississippi, Mohongagea, Ohio)" - Oak Ridge Boys
- November 5 - "Darlene" - T. Graham Brown
- November 12 - "Runaway Train" - Rosanne Cash
- November 19 - "I'll Leave This World Loving You" - Ricky Van Shelton
- December 3 - "I Know How He Feels" - Reba McEntire
- December 10 - "If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')" - George Strait
- December 17 - "A Tender Lie" - Restless Heart
- December 24 - "When You Say Nothing at All" - Keith Whitley
Other Major Hits
Top New Album Releases
Births
- May 24 -- Billy Gilman, the youngest artist to ever have a country hit record (2000's "One Voice").
Deaths
- September 20 -- Leon McAuliffe, 71, prominent member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys and a star in his own right.
Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
- Loretta Lynn (born 1935)
- Roy Rogers (1911–1998)
Major Awards
Grammy Awards
Academy of Country Music
- Entertainer Of The Year -- Hank Williams Jr.
- Song Of The Year -- "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses" - Kathy Mattea - Charles Nelson, Paul Nelson
- Single Of The Year -- "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses" - Kathy Mattea
- Album Of The Year -- This Woman - K.T. Oslin
- Top Male Vocalist -- George Strait
- Top Female Vocalist -- K.T. Oslin
- Top Vocal Duo -- The Judds
- Top Vocal Group -- Highway 101
- Top New Male Vocalist -- Rodney Crowell
- Top New Female Vocalist -- Suzy Bogguss
- Video Of The Year -- Young Country" - Hank Williams Jr.
